On my current Windows box, I have Node.js installed only in WSL – not on Windows itself.
When debugging a Node.js application from within a Visual Studio Code instance started from WSL, you may receive the following message:
While the dev experience certainly could be better, the solution is quite simple: Click on the “Open launch.json” button and add a configuration for “useWSL” with the value set to “true”.
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| { | |
| "version": "0.2.0", | |
| "configurations": [ | |
| { | |
| "type": "node", | |
| "request": "launch", | |
| "name": "Launch Program", | |
| "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\entry-point.js", | |
| "useWSL": true | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } |